#House on haunted hill 1999 cast movie#

They are ultimately just there to take some space. At least the cast of characters themselves arenвЂ™t completely annoying.

#House on haunted hill 1999 cast movie#

The movie relies on them to supply laughs in the early going, but almost all of it comes off as forced. Not so much because they are good, moreso because they are more over the top than the others.

The two most вЂњmemorableвЂќ characters are those played by Geoffrey Rush & Chris Kattan. Again, I have never seen the original, but how this twist almost materializes out of thin air feels more like a contrivance as opposed to good writing. Alas, it is just a tease that goes nowhere, unlike HoHHвЂs twist, which comes out of nowhere.

Taye Diggs and Ali Larter do have some chemistry, and for a fleeting moment the movie even appears to give their characters intrigue, maybe setting things up for something down the line. ItвЂ™s not that the performances are completely bad, but it does look like all have phoned it in for the paycheck. Much canвЂ™t be expected here from a storyline perspective,В and it becomes clear early on that much canвЂ™t be expected from those playing the characters trapped in the house. CanвЂ™t speak much on it from a personal view, but I imagine it is a better time than this. This House on Haunted Hill is a remake of a version in 1959, which is generally regarded as a cult classic. Whether then or now, it is seriously some of most pathetic stuff I have personally ever witnessed. In fact, it was derided heavily then as well. The thing is, it isnвЂ™t like the CGI was praised back in the day for this. When the film starts to вЂњrevealвЂќ itself is when all potential scares are lost, due to the production being so horrid. Surely it may have been more scarier upon the time of its release, but there are a few scenes that managed to creep me out, all with no special effects deployed. The usage of effects arenвЂ™t that prevalent in the first half, and this plays to the benefit of the film. The first thing noticed about HoHHВ is just how scary bad the effects are. If it is good though, it will remain so, just with a little more age on it.

Good movies can eventually beВ dated in certain areas when watching them years later. What worked or was considered passable then doesnвЂ™t fly as much now.

What I am trying to allude to is that much like its cast now, House on Haunted HillВ has seen better days. Now, many, many years later,В it may not be fair to say that every one of these actorsвЂ™ careers is completely nonexistent (aside from Geoffrey Rush), but theyвЂ™re not exactly getting frequent work either. In 1999, this was probably considered a semi all-star casts of sorts. Re-read those names who appear in this: Geoffrey Rush, Famke Janssen, Taye Diggs, Bridgette WIlson-Sampras, Ali Larter, Chris Kattan. Rolling with it, Steven decides to offer one million each to those who survive the night. Turns out that no one gets who they wanted to appear, as complete strangers (Taye Diggs,В Bridgette Wilson-Sampras, Peter Gallagher, Ali Larter, Chris Kattan) appear instead. She has a guest list, but Steven wants to do this his way, and he invites who he wants, angering Evelyn as the twoвЂ™s marriage is barely hanging by a thread. It is a place Evelyn Price (Famke Janssen) decides to have a birthday bash at, to which her multi-millionaire husband Steven Price (Geoffrey Rush) acquiesces. The asylum is setВ ablaze, but no one escapes, and over the years the place is known as вЂњThe House on Haunted Hill.вЂќДЇast forward to 1999, and the house still exists. A mad doctor performs some brutal experiments on his inhabitantsВ within it, and it isnвЂ™t long until the inmates refuse to take it anymore and attack the entire staff. So does the house make the hill haunted? Or is it the hill that makes the house haunted? Wording aside, House on Haunted HillВ starts in a house (more like an asylum) on a hill in the year 1931.